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there is no set of people making laws and decisions. from the grass roots you get, ad hoc decisions get made or signals being sent but no one coalesces all of this. chris: there we, duffy, mike, the rip-around question. if romney conditions in the situation he's in, inability to talk big, inability to talk smile. is he able to win the nomination? >> he is. we now what his flaws are and weak spots are and, of course, obama campaign has all of that tape. >> i agree. it's been a damaging primary for him. >> i will counter that and say candidates can find a reservoir if there's success. what he doesn't have is the kind of success that makes you better. he's been running so scared of late, all of that anxiety's coming out. >> every candidate can adapt. candidates that really want to will t will be up to romney to decide if he wants to. chris: politics is a learning profession. is it your experience covering him he's a learner? >> no, not in this realm. chris: before we break, we're talking about rick santorum's very conservative views on sos
there is no set of people making laws and decisions. from the grass roots you get, ad hoc decisions get made or signals being sent but no one coalesces all of this. chris: there we, duffy, mike, the rip-around question. if romney conditions in the situation he's in, inability to talk big, inability to talk smile. is he able to win the nomination? >> he is. we now what his flaws are and weak spots are and, of course, obama campaign has all of that tape. >> i agree. it's been a...
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it's the law. this is about our kids. this is about better schools. seven. i'm voting for question seven. i'm voting for question seven. chris: welcome back. mike, tell me something i don't know. >> there are 15 days left in the race. i think bill clinton will be campaigning for barack obama on nearly 11 of 12 of those days. chris: with obama? >> no, no, no, with obama or democrats. >> widely circulated report that hillary clinton had told a magazine that one of her former aides that women not having it all. that she was the catcher in the rye read by the interviewers teenage daughter. so it was completely out of context. >> oh, my goodness, why. you know, justice scalia took off hunting, guess with who? >> elena kagan. >> you knew. >> in republican circles is where they should throw a hail mary pass in michigan or pennsylvania. romney doesn't really want to but a lot of the super pac groups do. they want to make pennsylvania competitive. >> i've been thinking about that a long time. the big question this week, they have a debate victory bind them. who chris
it's the law. this is about our kids. this is about better schools. seven. i'm voting for question seven. i'm voting for question seven. chris: welcome back. mike, tell me something i don't know. >> there are 15 days left in the race. i think bill clinton will be campaigning for barack obama on nearly 11 of 12 of those days. chris: with obama? >> no, no, no, with obama or democrats. >> widely circulated report that hillary clinton had told a magazine that one of her former...
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of course presidents don't have the power to change the law by themselves, excuse me. but now he said and a few days earlier, i'll keep pre-existing conditions, i'll keep the kids. >> they took it back right after. >> they had taken it back. chris: he was on a sunday program and done it twice where he said we'll cover the pre-existing condition and wasn't true. >> it's telling about the new romney in this debate was that he was clearly trying to overcome the 47% problem which sam talked about by talking about empathy, i care, people are suffering and giving examples of people, the teacher in las vegas. he made it personal and did what democratic candidates normally do. chris: the right who asked him to make all these commitments throughout the campaign to ensure he's a conservative, they know the commitments and are they interested in him doing well instead of keeping the commitments. >> you'll have a contingent on the far right that are purists and don't want to hear any strain from that ideology and even if it means he loses, they're willing to go down with the ship.
of course presidents don't have the power to change the law by themselves, excuse me. but now he said and a few days earlier, i'll keep pre-existing conditions, i'll keep the kids. >> they took it back right after. >> they had taken it back. chris: he was on a sunday program and done it twice where he said we'll cover the pre-existing condition and wasn't true. >> it's telling about the new romney in this debate was that he was clearly trying to overcome the 47% problem which...
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. >> is there enough law there to do the job? >> yes. he is extending the boundaries because he is using wiretapping and other things other people haven't used before. >> draw? >> people are surprised if not concerned that president at the national prayer breakfast took a shot at mitt romney. it hasn't caused a lot of criticism yet. >> is that traditionally not done? >> not done. >> michelle obama is kicking off a busy month. next week she is going to be touring in mississippi, texas, iowa and other places. >> how do you get her on a show? i always wondered why they kept her in the airplane hanger and haven't brought her out. she is so attractive. why have they finally decided to bring her out? >> she is obviously out partly because it is campaign season. she wasn't out much in 2010 because she figured she would want to save up her capital for 2012. she is their best weapon. she was on ellen last week, on leno and warm. >> and she is spontaneous, which most politicians aren't. she is technically a civilian, but she can respond to somethi
. >> is there enough law there to do the job? >> yes. he is extending the boundaries because he is using wiretapping and other things other people haven't used before. >> draw? >> people are surprised if not concerned that president at the national prayer breakfast took a shot at mitt romney. it hasn't caused a lot of criticism yet. >> is that traditionally not done? >> not done. >> michelle obama is kicking off a busy month. next week she is going to...
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he said i oppose a federal open housing law and this year i support the 1968 civil rights bill with open housing. which way will he blow next? chris: flip-flop ads were used by the two president bushes starting here with george bush 41 slamming bill clinton in 199 and then george w. bush's famous 2004 wind surfing ad against john kerry. >> presidential candidate on the left stood for military action in the persian gulf while the candidate on the right agreed with those who opposed it. one of these candidates is bill clinton. unfortunately, so is the other. in which direction would john kerry lead? kerry voted for the iraq war. opposed it. supported it. and now opposes it again. john kerry. whichever way the wind blows. chris: funny thing is the guy who made that wind surfing ad that's bush's advisor mark mckinnon worked also for john mccain in 2008. and here's the recycled hand he work for mccain against primary opponent mitt romney. >> mitt romney seems to change positions like the wind. he tells florida he supports the bush tax cuts. but as massachusetts governor romney refused to take
he said i oppose a federal open housing law and this year i support the 1968 civil rights bill with open housing. which way will he blow next? chris: flip-flop ads were used by the two president bushes starting here with george bush 41 slamming bill clinton in 199 and then george w. bush's famous 2004 wind surfing ad against john kerry. >> presidential candidate on the left stood for military action in the persian gulf while the candidate on the right agreed with those who opposed it. one...
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chris: welcome back, rush limbaugh outdid his usual this week talking about the georgetown university law student who testified about the need for insurance coverage for birth control. >> so miss fluke and the rest of you fem nazis. here is the deal if we're going to pay for your contraceptives and pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. i'll tell you what it is. we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch. >> wow. chris: the big question, will republicans pay a price for rush limbaugh? we'll start with the women on this. >> first of all it was despicable and vile as i wrote in my column this weekend. he has gone way over his usual as you say. republicans need to stand up and condemn what he said. they need to truly distance themselves. it's going to take courage. they have to apologize to rush. chris: not just the inappropriate language? >> it's beyond inappropriate. it's horrible. you lose either way. you lose if you condemn him. you lose with his fans. you lose either way. they better come out and condemn him. >> judgment on this should be way above politics. i
chris: welcome back, rush limbaugh outdid his usual this week talking about the georgetown university law student who testified about the need for insurance coverage for birth control. >> so miss fluke and the rest of you fem nazis. here is the deal if we're going to pay for your contraceptives and pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. i'll tell you what it is. we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch. >> wow. chris: the big question, will republicans...
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to ban it, and biden said now we live in a society where we're telling everybody else how to live by law. does he charge at romney, who's been dodge-balling this issue for weeks now? >> sure. abortion is one of those issues where it's harder to make us sort of tack to the center. you're on one side or you're on the other side. to some extent one of the things i noticed is that no social issues came up at all and it worked to romney's advantage, because he was able to make this rhetorical shift and moderate a lot of his -- chris: single women going to him in those days afterwards. >> but abortion is a much harder issue to do that on. >> but there is a center, a place, and bill clinton defined it -- safe, legal and rare. that was a winning formulation for president clinton for a long time. >> but legal. that's the dividing line. chris: aimed almost directly at liberal catholics. >> i'll say two things, first, biden, apart from stopping the democratic panic the other night and drawing contrasts, the other thing that he accomplished was on these issues. abortion, one, afghanistan another, me
to ban it, and biden said now we live in a society where we're telling everybody else how to live by law. does he charge at romney, who's been dodge-balling this issue for weeks now? >> sure. abortion is one of those issues where it's harder to make us sort of tack to the center. you're on one side or you're on the other side. to some extent one of the things i noticed is that no social issues came up at all and it worked to romney's advantage, because he was able to make this rhetorical...
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that law makes absolutely no sense in the 21st century. >> bill -- >> what? i'm agreeing. chris: it's unbelievable. and when we come back, we will look at hillary clinton's stake in november's election. this election, would it be better for her in 2016 for obama to win? or to lose? let's calculate that. plus scoops and predictions right out of the notebooks of these top reporters. be right back. >> when that day arrives, and a woman takes the oath of office as our president, we will all stand taller, proud of the values of our nation, proud that every little girl can dream big and that her dreams can come true in america. chris: welcome back. that was of course hillary clinton at her concession to barack obama four years ago. her standout job as secretary of state has set her up for a run next time of course. but is she better off if barack obama loses this fall? we put it to the matthews meter. this big question, 12 of our regulars, eight say yes, she's better off if obama loses this fall. four say she's better off if he's in there as the incumbent. so she wouldn't have t
that law makes absolutely no sense in the 21st century. >> bill -- >> what? i'm agreeing. chris: it's unbelievable. and when we come back, we will look at hillary clinton's stake in november's election. this election, would it be better for her in 2016 for obama to win? or to lose? let's calculate that. plus scoops and predictions right out of the notebooks of these top reporters. be right back. >> when that day arrives, and a woman takes the oath of office as our president,...
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here's a scene, archie bunker can't believe what he's hearing about a football player who his son-in-law says is gay. >> i can't even say. >> he's right, arch. >> huh? >> he's right. how long you known me? 10, 12 years? >> yeah. >> in all that time did i ever mention a woman? >> what difference does that make? you're a bachelor. >> so. >> bachelors are always acting kinda private. >> exactly. >> ah, come on. chris: what a scene. president nixon watched that scene and listen to his secret the oval office. >> it's true, archie, it's true. i don't want to see this country go that way. you know what happened with the greeks. was axuality -- aristotle homo, we know. that you know what happened to the romans. the last six roman emperors -- the russians. we have got to stand up to these people. chris: what more can you say? when we return, george w. bush attacked john kerry as elite and out of touch. the obama team is using the bush playbook. can they turn mitt romney's wealth into a liability? bet they can. scoops and predictions. chris: welcome back. what do mitt romney and john kerry have in
here's a scene, archie bunker can't believe what he's hearing about a football player who his son-in-law says is gay. >> i can't even say. >> he's right, arch. >> huh? >> he's right. how long you known me? 10, 12 years? >> yeah. >> in all that time did i ever mention a woman? >> what difference does that make? you're a bachelor. >> so. >> bachelors are always acting kinda private. >> exactly. >> ah, come on. chris: what a scene....
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and now a new law is in the process of being written. we'll see if it will pass. once again, they may not actually write this one but their influence will be very heavy. chris: katty? >> i had a chance to spend some time in the obama headquarters. i was struck by how confident they are in their ground operation. they feel that while the republicans spend all this time tearing each other apart, they've been building relationships with persuadeable voters. they don't think romney, even if he has more money and more ad time will be able to match that. chris: the turnout? >> that's what they think. chris: kelly? >> they're trying to find time to find a card that will appeal to women. which is the pay women act which the republicans are not sponsors. it's another one of those ways women could see if and employer does the same job gets paid more. they're trying to find the right timing. chris: it's where they get caught with general election votes, women voters? >> exactly. >> vocational education has been on high inner 30, 40 years. but they turned things on their head
and now a new law is in the process of being written. we'll see if it will pass. once again, they may not actually write this one but their influence will be very heavy. chris: katty? >> i had a chance to spend some time in the obama headquarters. i was struck by how confident they are in their ground operation. they feel that while the republicans spend all this time tearing each other apart, they've been building relationships with persuadeable voters. they don't think romney, even if...
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, a law romney inspired in massachusetts. how can he be the number one attack dog and how can he promise to kill it? just as he wraps up a huge primary win, romney hear as top advisor say all his campaign promises are, he uses a watergate term, inoperative. is he stuck with the etch-a-sketch label for good. "mad men," they're all back, betty, jon, the incomparable joan. what is it about their world we find so downright transing? is it something this country had and lost? is it about our youth? hi, i'm chris matthews. with us today new york magazine john heilemann, cnn's gloria borger, cnbc kelly evans and pulitzer times editor david leonhardt? what do they have in common? both can wipe the slate clean. and they could wipe out the health care law, let it stand or kill the heart of it. we'll get clues in the extraordinary three days of argument starting monday. the president has not been talking much about health care lately, but there was this the other night. >> we want to call it obamacare, that's ok because i do care. that'
, a law romney inspired in massachusetts. how can he be the number one attack dog and how can he promise to kill it? just as he wraps up a huge primary win, romney hear as top advisor say all his campaign promises are, he uses a watergate term, inoperative. is he stuck with the etch-a-sketch label for good. "mad men," they're all back, betty, jon, the incomparable joan. what is it about their world we find so downright transing? is it something this country had and lost? is it about...
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look, the law is pretty unpopular across the country. it's true that if you single out preexisting conditions and the youths staying at shome on insurance those provisions are well liked. the law in total is about 50% of the country is against it. about a third of the country is for it. and the rest are undecided. most people don't want to run for re-election on a law that has basically 50% opposition. it's not -- nothing about this, i think you get a little bit of mileage from the supreme court but the constitutionality of this, even with john roberts' imprimatur, that's a smart set issue. for lower information issue it doesn't mean anything. the slaw not more popular today than it was yesterday. chris: president obama is more popular than this bill. and justice roberts, even in his legal robes, came out and said it is -- in his ruling that it's not my job to protect the american people from what they elect. this is your guy. and you -- and the congress passed this, live with it but it's constitutional. >> and even right from the bench
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is changed and is really is a strange law -- [laughter] >> i totally agree. [laughter] that law makes absolutely no sense in the 21st century. >> bill? >> what? i'm agreeing. [laughter] chris: it's unbelievable. those two. anyway, when we come back, we'll look at hillary's stake in this election. would it be better for her in 2016 for obama to win or to lose? what that day rifes and a woman takes the oath of office as our president, we will all stand taller, proud of the values of our nation, proud that every little girl can dream big and that her dreams can come true in america. chris: welcome back. that was of course hillary clinton and her concession to barack obama four years ago. her standout job as secretary of state has set her up for a run next time, of course, but is she better off or -- if obama loses or wins this fall? >> some predictors say yes, belter off if he loses. kathleen, this is a question that just have come to the minds of the clintons as they considered these questions? >> gosh, do you think? [laughter] >> the you think hillary would be
is changed and is really is a strange law -- [laughter] >> i totally agree. [laughter] that law makes absolutely no sense in the 21st century. >> bill? >> what? i'm agreeing. [laughter] chris: it's unbelievable. those two. anyway, when we come back, we'll look at hillary's stake in this election. would it be better for her in 2016 for obama to win or to lose? what that day rifes and a woman takes the oath of office as our president, we will all stand taller, proud of the...
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and serve the people of florida and will abide by those laws. bush won. he's going to make me ambassador. and not to a country who's poor. i'm getting out of this back water state. all i have to do is practice for my ambassador state. what do you think of this. >> good god. >> they're so cruel to katherine harris. katherine harris served two terms in the u.s. congress. lost the senat race back in 2006. when we come back, will the republican establishment freak out if newt wins florida this tuesday? will it go to its battle stations? will they find a way to stop newt. plus predictions. chris: welcome back. let me show you this posted on his news week daily beast by our own andrew sullivan. there's a picture of newt gingrich and the text says family values, using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife. well, the thought of newt gingrich getting nominated have republican establishment types freaked out but the fact is the south carolina republican voters were not phased about his personal issu
and serve the people of florida and will abide by those laws. bush won. he's going to make me ambassador. and not to a country who's poor. i'm getting out of this back water state. all i have to do is practice for my ambassador state. what do you think of this. >> good god. >> they're so cruel to katherine harris. katherine harris served two terms in the u.s. congress. lost the senat race back in 2006. when we come back, will the republican establishment freak out if newt wins...
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as you know, under the law i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong i hope they take it out. i hope everything that's wrong is taken out. but let me tell you this, the ad i saw said that you've been forced out of the speakership. that was correct. it said that -- that you sat down with nancy pelosi and argued for a climate change bill. that was correct. it said that you called the -- the ron paul -- paul ryan's plan to provide medicare reform a -- a right wing social engineering plan. it said that -- that as part of an investigation, an ethics investigation, that you had to reimburse some $300,000. those things were all true. if there was something related to abortion that said it was wrong, i hope they pull it out. anything wrong i'm opposed to. but you know, this ain't -- this ain't the bean bag. we're going to come into a campaign, we're going to describe the differences between us -- >> all right. >> but i do think the rhetoric, mr. speaker, was a little over the top. >> you think
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it took the sober minded jimmy carter to reverse prohibition era laws against home brewing. billy carter marketed his own brand of beer, known as billy beer. >> billy carter became a national celebrity during his brother, jimmy's, 1976 presidential campaign. he took great delight in projecting the image of an irreverent red neck. in 1979, after more than 20 years of instead drinking, billy entered the long beach naval hospital for treatment of alcoholism. his two-fisted drinking days were over. >> i have been drinking coke and milk and soft drink and i found out water can be drunk straight. >> i once found a six pack of billy beer in my parents' house after my dad died. i sold it for $25 at a garage sale. when we return, earthquakes, tsunamis, a few of the words undecided voters use to describe economic conditions. can president obama win back their votes with a sunnier forecast and scoops and predictions. >> what kind of a tree are you? you do think you're a tree? >> i hope i'm not an elm. >> we had to do this. her eventual answer was oak. but that's the question that cathe
it took the sober minded jimmy carter to reverse prohibition era laws against home brewing. billy carter marketed his own brand of beer, known as billy beer. >> billy carter became a national celebrity during his brother, jimmy's, 1976 presidential campaign. he took great delight in projecting the image of an irreverent red neck. in 1979, after more than 20 years of instead drinking, billy entered the long beach naval hospital for treatment of alcoholism. his two-fisted drinking days were...
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from harvard, from colombia, harvard law. and bobby rush just makes mincemeat of him and says you're a harvard guy, give me a break. >> and one of the things the president then as an aspiring politician learned through the tough world of chicago politics is how important it was to be connected to the right african-american power centers, whether it was church or state senator who was very influential and to use that to gain credibility. the community organizing that gave him real on-the-ground -- chris: so before he could go to the suburbs and downstate illinois and become a -- statewide and national figure he had to have a base. >> yes. chris: and he decided it had to be black. >> and how to connect to it and did it very skillfully and he found people who could really connect to what he brought in terms of this -- aspirational quality but learned the mechanics of politics. chris: at the same time, when he ran for president, he did another sort of walkback because he ran not just a an african-american but a guy who was a son
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go to civil law, call up the cops and get them arrested. chris: when we come back, is it risky for barack obama to keep blaming george w bush for things? we'll be right back. chris: welcome back. president obama welcomed george w bush back to the white house for the unveiling of his official portrait the other day. he gave him a little dig. >> the months before i took the oath of office was a chaotic time. we knew our economy was in trouble, our fellow americans were in pain. george, you went out of your way to make sure that the transition to a new administration was as seamless as possible. >> which brings us to this week's big question, is the president risking trouble if he keeps doing things like that, pointing to w, john? >> i don't think he is pointing at w. he is pointing to the financial crisis. i think that the obama people want to always remind people of the depth of the hole that the president inhabited. people know that, they need to be reminded. >> that was a graceless moment considering what else was going on there. >> yeah,
go to civil law, call up the cops and get them arrested. chris: when we come back, is it risky for barack obama to keep blaming george w bush for things? we'll be right back. chris: welcome back. president obama welcomed george w bush back to the white house for the unveiling of his official portrait the other day. he gave him a little dig. >> the months before i took the oath of office was a chaotic time. we knew our economy was in trouble, our fellow americans were in pain. george, you...